The run-up to the debates is Donald Trump's latest exercise in intimidating the press.

The candidates and the media have thoroughly corrupted the presidential debates. Our democracy deserves better. There's still time for a change.

As TV news approaches more moments of truth (and untruth) in the coming presidential debates.

Trumpism is not a program or an ideology. It is an attitude or pose that feeds off of, and then reinforces, widespread anger and alienation.

Past Republican presidents were repeatedly invoked as policy models by the Democratic candidates, highlighting today's GOP's lurch to the right.

Ben Carson’s rise to the top of the Republican presidential field shows that many Republicans, especially Christian fundamentalists, have decoupled from the real world — and are proud of it.

The World Series and the latest GOP debate trigger memories of a major presidential campaign snafu in 1976.

GOP contenders hate Obamacare but don't have an alternative and know nothing about health insurance, writes health care activist Wendell Potter.

In the 1988 book Presidential Debates, Jamieson and Birdsell define the "classical" style of debate, and explain why it is an important tool for informing voters.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Marty Kaplan join Bill to assess the true value of the 2012 political debates, and weigh in on campaign communication tactics in the home stretch.